Stoke-on-Film 1940s - Download version

Stoke-on-Film 1940s - Download versionThis collection spans the Second World War and the austerity years up to the end of rationing, and the re introduction of decorated pottery onto the market in the early 1950s. Ceramics expert Kathy Niblett outlines the developments in the pottery industry, and wee black and white and colour film of production at various factories during the decade. We see Digging for Victory at parks and allotments around the City in 1941, Kibblestone Scout Camp in

His final screen collaboration was with director Alfred Hitchcock - and we find how that project was abandoned when Bennett resisted it being re-worked as a talking picture

BBC Radio Stoke was launched promising Your Own Folk on Radio Stoke

the Danilo

This video looks at the archaeology and history of the village

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Armistice Sunday at the outbreak of World War II

male dressing room and female dressing room

In 1963 Barnes was named by Wisden in its hundredth edition as one of its "Six Giants of the Wisden Century"

This documentary captures the City General in 1988 - with the demolition of older buildings and just as the first wards of the future Royal Stoke were being built

There are reminiscences of the Park through the 20th century

It then moves on to document the great changes brought about within the last half century

Flying displays 1935